Owner of doomed grocery sues Mount Vernon, ex-mayor

8:09 PM,
Apr. 4, 2013

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The man behind a doomed grocery store is suing the city, former Mayor Clinton Young and a former building commissioner, claiming they broke a contract and violated his civil rights.

In a lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in White Plains, Salvatore Gizzo said the city never made good on a deal to reserve for customers more than 40 spaces in the municipal garage adjacent to his store. The lack of parking, the lawsuit maintains, ensured the store's demise.

Young declined to comment on the suit, saying, "I have not seen it, nor have I been served." ...